Paper Feathered Turkey

I'm so excited to share this fun Paper Feathered Turkey with you today!  A few weeks ago I was in charge of a couple of crafts at Super Saturday, and I had some 1" x 12" scraps of this fun fall paper left over.  I can't just throw perfectly good paper away, so I put it in my stash of scraps.  I'd been thinking about making a Turkey, and had a couple of ideas, then I remembered these strips of paper!  They were perfect.

I started by using my jigsaw to cut the pear shape for the Turkey body.  I had drawn the shape on a paper then traced it onto my wood and cut it out.  Then I cut a piece of cardstock that was just smaller than the larger part of the Turkey's body.  This is what I glued the paper feathers to.
I hot glued the paper strips and layered them a little as well.

I love that the paper is double sided so it's not boring on the inside of the feathers either!

I painted the Turkey body brown and did just a slight distressing on it.  I added some jewels for the eyes then free hand cut out the beak and red hangy thing (I have no idea what it's called). :)

I also free hand cut out the feet.  

Once I had the face and feet on the Turkey, I thought it needed a little something more, so I added some burlap ribbon, and the give thanks ribbon on top of it.

I seriously am loving how it turned out!  It's currently adorning my front door!

What do you have on your front door for Thanksgiving?
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